Lisa Hammond is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. Originally from Florence, SC, she earned her BA from Francis Marion University, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Alabama. She taught in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University before joining the faculty of USC Lancaster in 1998.

Dr. Hammond’s scholarly research focuses on American women writers, composition and technology, and gender issues in culture. Her work on parenting rhetoric has appeared in the National Women’s Studies Association Journal; and her latest article, “Revisioning Gender: Inventing Women in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nonfiction” appeared in Biography. She is currently on sabbatical working on her book, Books, Babies, and Blogs: Contemporary American Women Writing Motherhood. 

Dr. Hammond is also a poet; her collection, Moving House, won the 2006 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2007. She has had poems published in Southern Poetry Review, storySouth, River Oak Review, South Carolina Review, Literary Mama: A Literary Magazine for the Maternally Inclined, and English Journal, among others.

She teaches first-year composition, a wide range of sophomore-level literature courses for majors and non-majors, and a senior-level women’s literature course. Her online introductory women’s studies course, WOST J111: Women in Culture, won the Distinguished Program Award of the Region VII Association for Continuing Higher Education (region VII includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas). Several of her academic publications about teaching appear online as well. She lives with her two children in Rock Hill, SC.

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